- Achieve circulating beam as soon as we have a cold and minimally commissioned machine. 
- Commission with beam to demonstrate that the machine is viable (captured beam and 1 hour lifetime).  
- The first run for physics.
- The fall back solution: 
   - One or more sectors require a major repair and have to be warmed up.  
   -  Sector test from one side or both on several healthy sectors while the repair is ongoing – access ? Or time sharing the week.
- The energy strategy.
- Schedule

 The major non-conformities encountered, the ongoing work, repairs, etc. (PIMs, connection cryostats, coupling between bus-bars, water cooled cables and flexible connections, etc.). The planning for the coming months.

- Where we come from (a recall of sector 78)
- What was achieved in sector 45: number of circuits, energy of the presently commissioned sector 45, 
- how much more do we need for a reasonable energy level

o	safety, access, resources (qps, interlocks, power converters, MPP, controls), availabilty of systems, etc
o	Lessons from sector 4-5
o	Parallelism between HWC and machine checkout (partial & full) – resources, expertise, limits

o	How can we achieve a machine commissioned for beam operation for mid June?
o	Objectives, advantages of HWC to intermediate energy. 
o	How much time can we gain?
o	Can we achieve a commissioned machine for intermediate energy by mid-June? Critical issues for that?
o	Is there a safe limit to operate the magnets and the cryogenics for cold check-out, early physics? 

o              What is going to happen in the next 6 months?
o	Present experience
o	Closure of ring, preparation, qualification etc.
o	Prerequisites, EIS… 
o	Access during a sector test
o	Is the access system ready for HWC in parallel to a sectorized cold-check out in parallel to HWC and experiment preparation?

o	What are the experiments going to do from March to the first collisions
o	Can they leave with controlled access in the experimental areas in parallel with HWC and Cold-Check-out
o	Impact of a Sector test
o	How interested are the experiments in a run at intermediate energy?

o              Plans for preparation for beam commissioning, dry runs, system commissioning, machine protection commissioning, partial cold checkout, full machine check out.

o              How to operate up to 8 sectors together. 
o              Recovery after a quench: how much time does it take? Is expert intervention required? How can this be improved?
o              Equipment folder: tests results, handling of non-conformities, performance below specs, machine as commissioned vs. machine as nominal
o              Alarms/signals/SW available in CCC
o              Piquet/Experts availability

o             How to operate up to 8 sectors together
o             Recovery after a quench: how much time does it take? Is expert intervention required? How can this be improved?
o             Equipment folder: tests results, handling of non-conformities, performance below specs, machine as commissioned vs. machine as nominal
o             Alarms/signals/SW available in CCC
o             Piquet/Experts availability

o              Breakdown of tests foreseen in preparation for beam
o              Equipment folder: tests results, handling of non-conformities, performance below specs, machine as commissioned vs. machine as specified
o              Issues for sectorized cold check-out in parallel to HWC 
o              Alarms/signals/SW available in CCC
o              Piquet/experts availability

o	Breakdown of tests foreseen in preparation for beam 
o              Equipment folder: tests results, handling of non-conformities, performance below specs, machine as commissioned vs. machine as specified
o	Piquet/Experts availability

o	Breakdown of tests foreseen in preparation for beam (including damper, synchronization signals and pre-pulses, RF instrumentation)
o	Equipment folder: tests results, handling of non-conformities, performance below specs, machine as commissioned vs. machine as specified
o	Piquet/Experts availability

o	Breakdown of tests foreseen in preparation for beam
o	Equipment folder: tests results, handling of non-conformities, performance below specs, machine as commissioned vs. machine as specified
o	Piquet/Experts availability

o	Breakdown of tests foreseen in preparation for beam
o	Equipment folder: tests results, handling of non-conformities, performance below specs, machine as commissioned vs. machine as specified
o	Piquet/Experts availability

o	Breakdown of the QA tests foreseen in preparation for beam
o	Equipment folder: tests results, handling of non-conformities, performance below specs, machine as commissioned vs. machine as specified
o	Piquet/Experts availability

- motivation 
- options (injection point 8, injection point 2)
- prerequisites 
- test outline, planned total intensities

- precautions before test, during test
- survey, zonage 
- requirements after test 
- tunnel, experiments

- point 7 
- colimators, point 6 
- beam dump
- point 3, point 4
- radiation levels

- run trough list, 
- priorities, 
- intensities

- Motivation 
- Sector test, with circulating beam 
- Method, dangers, intensities 
- will HWC/MPP approve??? 
- Interference

Data base implementation in LSA. Procedures for uploading optics versions in to the LHC. Overview of the provided optics versions.

Aperture model for the LHC. Summary of known aperture bottlenecks (e.g. Q2) and their documentation in the CCC. Procedures for the safe measurement of aperture in the LHC.

Procedures for measuring for verifying the optics in the LHC. Summary of correction algorithms and their implementation in LSA.

Commissioning strategy for the orbit correction system (BPM errors; k-modulation). Options for feed back loop on orbit. Orbit correction in the LHC IR and collimation regions. Strategy for orbit threading.

Commissioning strategy for the tune and chromaticity correction systems. Options for feed back loop on tune and chromaticity.

Procedures for measuring beam emittances in the LHC. Tools for minimizing emittance blow up during injection, ramp and squeeze. Procedures and tools for transfer line to LHC matching.

Procedures for adjusting the non-linear correction circuits in the LHC. Procedures for verifying the correction circuit settings

Procedures for calibrating loss patterns. Operational scenarios given measured BLM losses. Threshold adjustment and masking disabling during operation. 

Basic tasks and options. Implementation

Integration into the LSA software and application of online MADX to operation

DB cluster introduction
New DB organization (LSA DB, Logging DB, Measurement DB, …)
Performance issues (all databases)
Logging DB: data rates – what is acceptable vs. what is expected

Introduction (scope, high level architecture)
Settings organisation for LHC
Transactions (FGCs, FESA)
Republication of information from LSA to DIP

Introduction (motivation for RBAC and MCS)
What’s involved in making a property critical?
How we manage maintenance of RBAC roles and MCS definitions?
How do we ensure that configuration in LSA DB is in sync with Front-end?

Experiences from HWC
Current functionality and functionality which is missing for the first beam.
Sequence creation/edition – who and how?

HW status.
Timing tables, telegrams, interface form LSA
Injection cycling/filling scenario overview
Post Mortem, XPOC events distribution

What’s needed, what’s there, 
What’s missing and who is likely to do it (OP, CO, LAFS, BI)?

Status of FIDEL in LSA.
How do we feed errors back into the model? 
How do we feed a new model into LSA? 
Magnet vs. circuit modelling.

Readiness of collimators control – from bottom to top
State of automated collimator positioning

Hardware readiness and plans
State of the supervision

Present readiness status.
Missing functionality – machine checkout and beam operations.

HWC tools & evolution
Towards beam: tools, storage, triggering